Why are so many Tories joining Reform?
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The Guardian
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🗓️ 23 January 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Guardian. |
| 0:06.0 | Today, why Tories are queuing up to join reform. |
| 0:15.0 | So I've arrived in Davos and yes... |
| 0:20.9 | Peter, what is Nigel Farage doing in Davos? |
| 0:23.8 | It's very good question. |
| 0:25.3 | I mean, he's hobnobbing with the rich and famous. |
| 0:28.9 | This afternoon Donald Trump will be speaking. |
| 0:31.0 | This afternoon present Malay of Argentina will be speaking. |
| 0:34.5 | I'm going to be on the stage. |
| 0:35.9 | Of course he is. |
| 0:36.7 | For years, Farage has railed against the World Economic Forum and its annual... will be speaking. I'm going to be on the stage. Of course he is. |
| 0:44.0 | For years, Farage has railed against the World Economic Forum and its annual summit in the snow-capped Swiss Mountains where world leaders, CEOs, tech types and bankers gather for corporate networking. |
| 0:50.3 | He calls him globalists who want to get rid of the nation-state. |
| 0:52.9 | And he would sometimes delve into territory, which was loosely allied to anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, |
| 0:59.2 | about globalists and bankers wanting to take over the world. |
| 1:02.2 | Because we can decide all of this in ski resorts, in Switzerland. Isn't it wonderful? |
| 1:06.6 | But now he's decided it's a useful place to go. |
| 1:09.7 | While Farage has made a 180-degree political turn, |
| 1:14.0 | so have the ambitious Tories who once slagged off his party, |
| 1:17.4 | but are now jostling to join him. |
| 1:19.1 | Nadine Dorries, the former Conservative minister, |
| 1:23.2 | she's defecting. |
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